Angelina Jolie admits she fell into acting to pay her mother's bills
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- Published on Saturday, 09 December 2017 11:13
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Jolie says despite the success she's enjoyed during her career, she has never truly felt at home in front of the camera. Award-winning star Angelina Jolie has confessed she turned to acting simply to help her late mother Marcheline Bertrand pay her bills.The Academy Award-winning star says despite the success she's enjoyed during her career, she has never truly felt at home in front of the camera.She explained: "There's a lot that's not in my nature to be an actor."I'm very happy that I was able to be one - I'm very lucky and very fortunate - but I realised how much it was for my mother when she passed away, because I felt very differently about it as soon as she was gone."I think, when I started acting, it was a good means to an end. It was a job, and I wanted to help my mom with bills."It was a creative job, something where you get to explore different times in history, different people, different sides of yourself, learn different skills, so it's a wonderful job to have as you grow and as you learn as a person. But you also are not those people."Jolie, 42, conceded she's struggled to cope with the pressures of fame during her time in Hollywood.The actress-turned-director said that when she first emerged on the scene, she was too inexperienced in life to deal with the scrutiny she faced.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Jolie reflected: "You're young and you don't know exactly who you are, yet you also get a microphone in front of your face, and you're 17, 18, and people are asking you your opinions, and you haven't formed them yet."In the late 90s, Jolie even briefly turned away from the movie business, as she attended New York University.Of that experience, she recalled: "I was ready to kind of have a different life ... I'd done what everybody said you should do - become an actor. This is what should make you happy, right ...? I was miserable. I was completely unhappy."
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'We don't have to keep our heads down!': Angelina Jolie inspires with powerful speech about 'asserting ourselves' at Women In Entertainment event
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- Published on Thursday, 07 December 2017 04:46
- Written by Daily Mail
Angelina Jolie took to the stage at The Hollywood Reporter's 2017 Women In Entertainment Breakfast in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning.The Maleficent actress, 42, dressed in black as she addressed the crowd that included Jennifer Lawrence, Gal Gadot, Lily Collins, Olivia Munn and Emmy Rossum.The mother-of-six gave a powerful speech about how women who assert themselves in Hollywood can inspire women all over the world. The room was silent as the estranged wife of Brad Pitt said her words.'We have the right to speak truth as we see it,' said the Oscar-winning Salt actress.'We all know women who were never able to live their creative dreams because they had to put their families first, who poured their creative truth into their families.'The Vogue cover girl spoke slowly and with passion as the room full of mostly women looked on.'We all know that our industry lacks diversity and equality and that there's so much we have to change.'Jolie was most likely referring to the pay gap where females are paid a fraction of what male stars earn. 'But we have a level of freedom that is unimaginable for millions of other women around the world,' added the UN spokesperson.'Women who live with conflict and terrorism and displacement and poverty who never get a chance, whose voices are always silenced.'And the Tomb Raider star reminded the room that they have privileges most don't. 'We don't have to keep our heads down, we don't have to think the film we made... could land us in prison where we might be tortured or punished.'
She further drove home her point by saying: 'We don't have to worry that a play we did or what will be seen on TV will bring dishonor to our families.'We don't have to tailor out clothes or our pinions to what is acceptable to religious authority of violent extremist groups.'Angelina also said that 'we have the right to think freely and speak freely and put forward our ideas on equal terms.'There are women across the world just trying to have a voice trying to have an opinion.' Then the superstar brought her speech back to what happens in Hollywood and how these ladies in the room are role models. 'Asserting ourselves as female artists represents something really, really important in the world today,' said the star.Angelina last directed First They Killed My Father for Netflix. The star is committed to star in the sequel to Maleficent for Disney.
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‘Zombie’ teen who claimed she had fifty ops to look like Angelina Jolie admits she was FAKING it all along ‘to amuse herself’
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- Published on Thursday, 07 December 2017 04:49
- Written by The Sun
A TEEN who claimed she had undergone 50 surgeries to look like her idol Angelina Jolie has admitted she faked the whole thing to “amuse” herself.Sahar Tabar had been called a “zombie” by cruel viewers after her gaunt Instagram selfies went viral.But, as The Sun Online reported last week, many more viewers had a hunch that the teenage superfan may be using Photoshop to tweak her pictures.And now 19-year-old Sahar has come clean and admitted that her shocking, emaciated look is not real.Rather than a result of surgery or drastic weight loss, the Iranain teen’s look was created through a combo of make-up magic and computer wizardry.Sahar told Sputnik : “Now I can see that I have something in common with (Angelina Jolie), but I amuse myself, and to look like someone is not my goal.” The Iranian teen had been the subject of intense speculation about whether her story was true .She added that her look, characterised by hollow cheeks, inflated, pouting lips and bright, blue eyes, shouldn’t be taken at face value.Sahar, who reportedly also dropped 40kg as part of her transformation, said: “Over time I post a photo, I make my face more fun and funny, it is a form of self-expression, a kind of art.“My fans know that this is not my real face.”Now, un-touched photos have emerged which allegedly show the Instagram star without her make-up and contacts.Sahar looks startlingly normal in the pics, posted on her second Instagram account back in October.It’s a far cry from the “zombie” selfies which saw the young woman compared to the Corpse Bride.Suspicion emerged around her photos after an eagle-eyed viewer claimed one of her more extreme selfies had been edited in Photoshop.The warped background and odd lines in the shot suggest that it has been tweaked using a computer.We’ve been bringing you all the updates on Sahar’s sensational story.Previously, we revealed that the teen admitted she had been using make-up to exaggerate her look.We also shared a YouTube video where the teen can be seen using a Kylie Jenner kit to plump up her lips
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'I thought it would be good for our marriage': Angelina Jolie steps out with daughter Vivienne after revealing she believed working with ex Brad Pitt on final film would help them talk about their problems
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 December 2017 04:32
- Written by Daily Mail
She filed for divorce from her movie-star husband in September 2016 after 12 years together.And now Angelina Jolie, 42, has revealed she thought working with ex Brad Pitt, 53, on 2015's By The Sea would help them communicate better as a couple.The actress directed the marital drama movie two years ago and admitted she thought it could have had a positive impact on their relationship by working together on a big project.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter's podcast Awards Chatter, she said: 'We had met working together and we worked together well...I wanted us to do some serious work together...I thought it would be a good way for us to communicate.'In some ways it was, and in some ways we learned some things. But there was a heaviness probably during that situation that carried on and it wasn't because of the film.She continued: 'It was something that we were dealing... things happen for different reasons, and things... why did I write that exact piece? Why did we feel that way when we made it? I'm not sure.'The couple - who together have six children - met while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2005, and Jolie candidly explained how she had a difficult time in the decade after they sparked a romance.'Over the span of that decade, I did lose my mother,' she added. 'I did have my mastectomy, and I did then have an ovarian cancer scare and have that surgery as well, and other things of course that happened in life that you go through.'A piece of art can be something that's healing or something that's difficult. I don't know. I'm glad we did that film because we did explore something together. She finished: 'Whatever it was maybe it didn't solve certain things, but we did communicate something that needed to be communicated to each other.'
Together, the former couple have Maddox, 16, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 11, and nine-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.And on Monday, Angelina spent some quality time with daughter Vivienne in Los Angeles.The Hollywood star looked in high spirits as she stepped out with the nine-year-old as she arrived for her Karate class.Sunglass-clad Angelina looked endless chic in a cream knee-length coat, black denims and white tee, while Vivienne looked ready for her active class in her white martial arts trousers and a green T-shirt. Elsewhere, Angelina was candid while promoting her new film First They Killed My Father when she admitted that filing for divorce after a 12 year relationship has been difficult.She said: 'Sometimes maybe it appears I am pulling it all together. But really I am just trying to get through my days.' 'I don’t enjoy being single. It’s not something I wanted,' she continued in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph. 'There are no upsides, there's nothing nice about it. It's just hard.' Meanwhile, she signed up for Maleficent 2 this summer following the success of the 2014 original.Speaking at the Telluride Film Festival over the weekend, the actress said: 'We have been working on the script and this is going to be a really strong sequel.'Although not much else is known about the upcoming sequel, last week, Disney revealed they have hired Spectre co-writer Jez Butterworth to rewrite the screenplay for the film.
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Angelina Jolie NOT “Desperate” For Brad Pitt Reconciliation, Despite Reports
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- Published on Sunday, 03 December 2017 13:13
- Written by Gossip Cop
Angelina Jolie is not “desperate” for a reconciliation with Brad Pitt, despite reports contending she wants him “back.” Gossip Cop can correct this misinformation and explain how it originated.HollywoodLife is announcing in a headline, “Angelina Jolie Reportedly Desperate For Brad Pitt Reconciliation: Why He’d Never Take Her Back.” For a change, the webloid isn’t guilty of making this up. Rather, it’s guilty of picking up these contentions from a tabloid without bothering to fact-check them first. The claims were initially published by Life & Style, and HollywoodLife saw fit to regurgitate them with no regards to whether they’re even accurate. And, of course, they’re not.But the site quotes a purported source from the magazine as saying of Jolie, “She’s been in tears over losing him. She’s told friends, ‘I made the mistake of a lifetime.'” The problem, according to these two publications, is that “Brad feels too much damage has been done and she’s tormented him for too long to consider taking her back.” In actuality, the real problem is that this was all manufactured by one outlet and then spread online by another.What’s particularly mind-boggling is that both places are pretending these assertions aren’t inconsistent with allegations they’ve peddled in the past. For instance, while now running these contentions about one side wanting a reconciliation, Life & Style isn’t acknowledging that it previously claimed Jolie and Pitt were “secretly dating” in May. And HollywoodLife is conveniently forgetting that it fell for that false story and similarly wrongly claimed Jolie and Pitt were back together. If that were the case, why are the two insisting now that she wants to reconcile and he’s refusing? After all, months ago they were already supposedly reunited.That wasn’t true, of course, and it’s obvious that in addition to not caring about accuracy, these publications don’t care about consistency, either. It’s also obvious that if either had real insight on Jolie and Pitt, it wouldn’t have run wrong information in the first place. But the estranged spouses weren’t back together in May, and one half isn’t pushing for a reunion now. They remain separated, and while Jolie has admitted she doesn’t “enjoy being single,” that doesn’t mean the divorce isn’t going to move forward, Gossip Cop is told.
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